OXFORD, NS (Canada)
Design 1C
Canadian pale & 3 blueberries with leaves
With the town’s moniker being the “WILD blueberry capital of Canada”, I added some leaves to show the blueberries as if “in the wild” rather than cultivated or after harvested where they no longer have their leaves. While I got the look from art in the town (town sign and big chair for photo-ops), I have been told from feedback prior to this posting that neither actually rendered the blueberry leaves correctly! The leaves are not serrated, but rather almond shaped with simple, curved sides! You’d think they would have known that and not put up with the inaccuracy in the “wild blueberry capital of Canada”! But that’s partly why you put these things out for public feedback!
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REFERENCE
Oxford, Nova Scotia, is a town 10.68 sq km (4.12 sq mi) in size, with about 1,200 people. Despite this small size and population, it is the world’s largest processor and distributor of individually quick frozen (IQF) wild blueberries! This is because it is centred in a large blueberry growing region, with Oxford Frozen Foods Ltd., a wild blueberry processor owned by local businessman John Bragg, processing up to three million pounds of berries a day during peak season! John owns the plant and over 12,000 acres of blueberry land in the area, with another 15,700 acres in the Acadian region of northern New Brunswick added in 2014. The town was founded in 1792, with the “Oxford” name derived from the shallow river that was used to enter the town, rather than having anything to do with Oxford in England. Early settlers used oxen to cross, or “ford”, the river, and thus derived the town’s Oxford name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford,_Nova_Scotia
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